The legislative mania, which is sweeping the country to disarm
law-abiding citizens, is fascinating. There is an overwhelming
abundance of facts and figures, which document that guns, as tools, are
good. Two incontestable axioms are: 1) Take guns away, and make it
ponderous to own guns, and crime increases; and 2) Permit and encourage
lawful gun ownership, and crime decreases. I have written and talked
about those two facts a lot ... as some complain, too much.

In the wake of the renewed legislative mania to ban guns (big guns,
small guns, ugly guns, and new guns) I have been researching the real
reasons, motivation, and hidden agenda to gun prohibition. I often
observe that "some people just don't want to be confused with facts
which contradict their preconceived opinions." I don't often comment on
the collorary to that "When you find facts that support your
preconceived opinion, it's cool." It is always encouraging when you
stumble across well-documented support for what one feels is a
controversial epiphany. That has just happened to me.

Notwithstanding the disingenuous, duplicitous tripe we hear from the
myopic ideologues about the imperative to disarm America (and if Kofi
Annin had his way ... the world), the stark realities of gun control
should gag even the most devoted bleeding heart, anti-constitutionalist,
socialist liberal.

Gun control is racist and elitist. The Kansas Journal of Law and
Public Policy (Winter 1995) includes "The Racist Roots of Gun Control."
The article documents the "historical record provides compelling
evidence that racism underlies gun control laws -- and not in any subtle
way."

The realization that gun control is racist and, tangentially, a means
of weakening and making vulnerable to the whim of the power elite any
and all "ordinary" people is significant. The vast left wing conspiracy
has consistently and routinely positioned themselves as "the protectors
of the downtrodden." However, what they inevitably fail to acknowledge
is that by denying anyone and everyone the most basic inalienable right
to protect and defend self, family and property, the presumed
"protectors" are in fact, oppressors. Throughout much of American
history, gun control was openly stated as a method for keeping blacks
and Hispanics "in their place," and to quiet the racial fears of whites.

The United States is neither the Lone Ranger, nor innovator of gun
control as a means of controlling. Thomas Ingersoll (William and Mary
Quarterly, 1991) observed as far back as 1751, "the French Black Code
required Louisiana colonists to stop any blacks, and if necessary, beat
"any black carrying any potential weapon, such as a cane." If a black
refused to stop on demand, and was on horseback, the colonist was
authorized to "shoot to kill." However, reality occasionally obstructed
desires. In 18th century Louisiana the very real "fear of Indian
attack, and the importance of hunting to the colonial economy, slave
possession of firearms was at times a necessity." Although the
controlling colonists feared blacks with guns, they feared Indians more,
and they needed armed blacks to be around to defend them when necessary
(gee, that sounds kinda familiar). So, "as a result, French Louisiana
passed laws that allowed slaves and free blacks to possess firearms only
under very controlled conditions."

A 1993 essay by Edmund Morgan noted that "The aristocratic power
structure of colonial Virginia found itself confronting a political
challenge from lower class whites. These poor whites resented how
the men who controlled the government used that power to concentrate
wealth into a small number of hands." Gosh oh gee golly ... DAMN, that
DOES sound familiar. "These wealthy feeders at the government trough
would have disarmed poor whites if they could, but the threat of
both Indian and pirate attack made this impractical; for all white men
'were armed and had to be armed. ...' Instead, blacks, who had occupied
a poorly defined status between indentured servant and slave, were
reduced to hereditary chattel slavery, so that poor whites could be
economically advantaged, without the upper class having to give up its
privileges."

The most recent example of the inherent racism of gun control can be
seen in Kosovo. Imagine yourself as a resident of Kosovo when some
armed "legal authority" knocks (or kicks) on your door requiring you and
your family submit to summary execution. Before you discount the
possibility as creative writing hyperbole, consider some Americans
already have family experience similar to that "what if." Families of
American Jews, Africans and Cambodians have already been there ... done
that.

If you are one of the conditioned, naive sheeple whom would say, "Oh
yes, that is all terrible, but it could never happen HERE" -- it already
has. Just look back to 1994 and the warrantless searches of
PRIVATE residences for guns in Chicago housing projects. Those
warrantless searches were eventually blocked by a judge, but the media
and our president were obviously unimpressed with the blatant violation
of Fourth Amendment protections.

Gun control has always been racist and discriminatory. The ultimate
objective of gun control is to control an unarmed people by an armed
oppressor.

Reprinted with Permission of Geoff Metcalf

Mr. Metcalf
is Chairman and Co-Founder of the Veto
The Governor initiative to get The Right to Keep and Bear Arms amended
into the California Constitution.

Hire Geoff
Metcalf to speak at your organization, event, or group. For further
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